Flashes of Life and Oddities Across the World
A mosaic of brief notes from AP dispatches: blood stain analysis priced at 750 for three exams in Atlantic City. murder case in Malone, N Y with witnesses buying a quart of champagne. Lindy room swap tale from Mexico City. quake forecasts in Asia and a five minute tremor. estate bequest in Miami with Miller and Hardiman. lunar weight quirk notes from Washington about the Leviathan steamship and moon lift.
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Moscow
Raphael Rendani
Tralysi
Asia
Semipilatangki
Miami
Fia
Fred B. Miller
James Hardiman
Miller
Washington
National Geography Society
The Gay Retreat at Grand Theatre this week
Ted McNamara and Sammy Cohen, the Mischief Making Marines of What Price Glory, headline the film The Gay Retreat. The pair produce the laughs in this latest feature as shown at Grand Theatre with performances Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
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Ted McNamara
Sammy Cohen
Price Glory
F Films
Grand Theatre
Mutiny Reported in Laobokow Hupeh
Mutiny reported in Laobokow northern Hupeh about 200 miles northwest of Hankow. Troops reportedly looted and burned the city on the Han River amid upheaval in the region.
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Hankow
Laobokow
Hupeh
Han River
The Better Ole at Opera House Delights with Old Bill
At the Opera House tonight and Wednesday the Warner Bros. film The Better Ole offers lively portrayals led by Syd Chaplin as Old Bin. The adaptation preserves humor born from war with minimal titles and strong action scenes. One show each evening, Bunny Boob at 7:30, The Better Ole at 8.
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Warner Bros
Opera House
Old bin
Syd Chaplin
Bruce Bairnsfather
London
Bill
Foch
Haig
Pershing
Old Bill
Charles Reisner
Barry Francis Zanuck
Ole
Bairnsfather
West Virginia Grantsville Welcomes New Gas Plant
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company opened a Grantsville gas engine driven power plant last night. G M Alexander of Fairmont, company president, pressed the start button as a banquet honored attendees including K Moore Parkersburg attorney and H Hardesty. Mayor Amos E Morgan and others attended. The two unit plant will supply power to Grantsville under Superintendent Walter Probst.
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Gransville
Monongahela
West Penn Public Service Company
Calhoun County
G. M. Alexander
Fairmont
Alexander
K . Moore
Parkersburg
L. C. Hamilton
4. Johnston
Grantville
Walter Probst
Grantsville
Doves Show Thyroid Evolution Beat Dry Ordinance
Washington report notes city council defeated a prohibition ordinance while scientist Dr. Oscar Riddle reports doves bred with fixed thyroid sizes. Study of large or small glands explores heredity implications for human evolution and potential future thyroid races.
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Weston
Malloy
Clarksburg
Ano- Washington
Bether
Oscar Riddle
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Riddle
Gang
Thayer Street
Weat Side
Aging Dangers Highlight Elderly Health Risks
An old notice warns that most people die around sixty as vital forces wane after forty while elder residents are prone to colds turning to pneumonia. A funeral acknowledgment thanks friends and neighbors for support and floral offerings. It also advertises a blood tonic, urging readers to buy Dulgarian Herb Tea to boost resistance and break up colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Brebd
Ady
Second Trial Jury Panel In Bingamon Junction Case
A panel of thirty six potential jurors was drawn for the second trial of James Tonty for blowing up the Western Maryland railroad bridge at Bingamon Junction. Fourteen jurors qualified yesterday. Judge L S Schwenck ordered twenty five more jurors to be drawn and to appear today as jury selection continues. The previous Toney case ended with a hung jury and additional evidence will be presented.
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Fairmont
James Tonty
U S Gunboat Rescue and Canton Communist Takeover
The U S gunboat Asheville helped rescue a burning Chinese steamer near Hsiu while fire pumps failed, then beached safely with no deaths. Canton falls under communist control as reports say Soviets installed leaders and a war commissar, with tensions rising between communists and nationalist elements. Missionaries, including Americans and Germans, arrived in Hong Kong after the upheaval.
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H8iu
Asheville
Canton
London
Communista
Sdmen’s
Uhlon
Hank’ Konig
Reuters
Trier
Michael Borodin
Hong Kong
China
Todgy Fies
Prolific Families Dominate Rial County Demographics
The largest families in the county are identified as Etiins Randolph with thirty-seven children across two marriages, and H A Smith of Millcott's Ridge with twenty-one children, eleven via second wife. Details recount births and living children, highlighting scores of offspring as a notable local feature.
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Randolph County
Lloyd G. Summerfield
Bowden
Mr. Summerfield
H. A. Smith
Train Riders Go Free Pay Five Fines In Pine Grove
Ralph and John Freltelgan youths of Pine Grove Pennsylvania were fined for train riding after being arrested by Be & Oy Officer TL W White on St Louis New York train No 4. Magistrate L Haymond reduced the $10 fine and costs to 35 with costs, allowing the boys to work a few days to pay their way home. They paid and were released. No other arrests reported since yesterday.
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Ralph
John
Yester
World flight proposed to honor Lafayette squadron
East to west world flight proposed as a 1928 American aviation project. Thomas M Hewitt Jr aims to fly a tri motor from New York to Paris by May 30 1928 to join the dedication of the Methodial De L Etoile Lafayette squadron. Planned stops include San Francisco Honolulu Tokyo Vladivostok Peking Shanghai Hong Kong Hanoi Calcutta Kabul Tehran Constantinople then Paris to New York.
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Wallingford
Thomas M. Hewitt, Jr
New York
Raoul Lutbery
Lutbery
Hewitt
Connecticut
John H Trumpull
Fisd
Wallingford Chamber of Commerce
Luthery
Paris
Methodlal de L'Eieudrille
Lafayette
San Francisco
Honolulu
Okyo
Vladivostok
Peking
Shargha
Kong Kong
Hanoi
Calu
Kiwanis Luncheon Tonight Promises Program
The Kiwanis Club meets at 4 15 PM with an attractive program planned. The Y M C A board of directors holds a special meeting at 7 30 PM to discuss important business. The Y Glee Club rehearses at 7 30 PM following the luncheon. Gym schedule lists Intermedates, Junior A B Juniors at 6 PM, Recreation Five Stars 7 8, Christian Seniors 8 10. Business Men's Club meets tomorrow. The Pitt Panthers are noted as well matched this year.
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Kiwanis Club
Regilar
M. C. A. Board of
Y. Glee Club
Kiwatts
Jeavy Andrews
A. B
Recreation Five Stars
Christian
Business Men’s Closs
Pitt Panthers
Many Pardons Roused Controversy in Kentucky Trial
War mothers urged commutation for Harrod due to wartime illness and hospitalization after being found on a France field exhausted two days before the Armistice. J. Flem D. Sampson, Republican, inaugurated as Kentucky governor, defeating J. C. W. Beckham as Democrats retain most offices. The piece notes petitions for mercy and public debate over treatment of veterans and race track gambling.
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Weene
William Fox
Ted Menamara
Gay
Willam Fox
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Jox Ave
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Denzil Jack
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R. T. Crowley
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Sand
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Bandy
Will Holt
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Will Boyd
Lansing
Richlands
Ile
World Flight
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William J. Fields
Sampson
State Court of Appeals
J. C. W. Beckham
Beckham
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